PART 1 FUNDAMENTALS Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields Chapter 1.9 Pattern and Rhythm Artists use to bring order to space, add visual interest, create area of focus, add cultural/historical references and signal a time element Patterns are created by the recurrence of an art element In a work of art, the repetition of such patterns gives a sense of unity Rhythm arises through the repetition of pattern amongst any visual element-fabrics, gestures, colors, shapes, etc. The rhythm of a series of linked elements guides the movement of our eyes across and through a design Introduction-Pattern & Rhythm
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PART 1
FUNDAMENTALS
Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields
Chapter 1.9 Pattern and Rhythm
Artists use to bring order
to space, add visual interest, create area of focus, add
cultural/historical references and signal a time element
Patterns are created by the recurrence of an art element
In a work of art, the repetition of such patterns gives a
sense of unity
Rhythm arises through the repetition of pattern amongst
any visual element-fabrics, gestures, colors, shapes, etc.
The rhythm of a series of linked elements guides the
movement of our eyes across and through a design
Introduction-Pattern & Rhythm
PART 1
FUNDAMENTALS
Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields
Chapter 1.9 Pattern and Rhythm
The use of repetition in a work of art usually results in
the creation of a pattern
Artists often create unity in works of art by repeatedly using a
similar shape, value, or color, for example
An artist can use repetition of a pattern to impose order on a
work
Artists use alternating patterns to make a work more lively
The area covered by pattern is called the field
Pattern
Suzanne Valadon, The Blue Room, 1923. Oil on canvas, 35½ × 45⅝”. Musée National d’Art Moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
PART 1
FUNDAMENTALS
Chapter 1.9 Pattern and Rhythm
Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields
Suzanne Valadon, The Blue Room
Includes three contrasting patterns
The blue bed covering
The pattern in the woman’s pajama
bottoms
Above the figure is a mottled pattern
The differences in these patterns
energize the work
Pattern influences much of Matisse’s
work whose work is similar
Edouard Vuillard 1893
The Suitor
Henri Matisse The Robe 1937
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Chapter 1.9 Pattern and Rhythm
Motif
A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a motif
Motifs can represent ideas, images, and themes that can
be brought together through the use of pattern
An artist can create a strong unified design by repeating
a motif
Targets
Vintage quilt piece
1950’s
Unknown artist
The motif is the
square with the
target in it. As it is
repeated, it creates
a field.
Chuck Close,
Self Portrait, 1997. Oil
on canvas, 8’6” × 7’.
MOMA, New York
1.153c Chuck Close, Self Portrait, detail
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Chapter 1.9 Pattern and Rhythm
Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields
Chuck Close, Self Portrait Uses motif to unify his paintings
Uses a repeated pattern of organic
concentric rings set into a diamond
shape as the basic building blocks
for his large compositions
The motif that Close uses is the
result of a working with grids and
photographs
PROSOPAGNOSIA
PART 1
FUNDAMENTALS
Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts, Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann, M. Kathryn Shields
Chapter 1.9 Pattern and Rhythm
R a ndo m ne s s The introduction of chance symbolizes-anti-order
Artists who introduce randomness to a work try to avoid
predictable repetition, symmetry, any mathematical construct